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Show Wednesday. October 1 1980 THE HERALD Provo Utah-Pa- ge 21 Letter From Consumer Creates Big Controversy Over Saccharin - WASHINGTON (UPI) The presiSeven-U- p Company has accused the head of the Food and Drug Administration of altering a consumer's letter to create the opportunity to warn the public against prolonged use of saccharin. dent of the "It is incredible that in the year 1980, in a democratic government, a scheme such as that recently perpetrated by FDA Commissioner Dr. Jere E. Goyan could actually be carried out," Edward W. Frantel said in a letter to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.. The controversy surrounds a letter seeking information on the alleged link of saccharin to cancer, and Goyan's response as published in the June issue of the FDA Consumer, a magazine published by the agency. The letter, as printed in the starts off by saving: "Recently I have heard that drinking two cans of diet soda or the equivalent magazine: year-olcollege student from Santa Barbara, Calif., and that it started off by saying: all but guarantees bladder cancer within 10 years. I am 12 years old and drink at least two .ans of diet soda a day. I don't particularly want to drop dead on my 22nd birthday." It goes on to ask tor information about the saccharin issue and was signed: "Terry Jacobs". The Seven-U- p Co., acting under the Freedom of Information Act, obtained the letter from the FDA and discovered that it was signed by Dana Jaeger, a 20- - d "RecenUy: I have heard that drinking two cans of dietary soda or the equivalent all but guarantees bladder the FDA Consumer was therefore not genuine. He said in a telephone interview from his office in St. Lcuis that changing the consumer's name age and altering the contents cf the letter was a violation of ethics. "Am I to assume now that we have years. I drink at least 24 ounces of soda a day plus coffee with two standards," he asked "one for added saccharin. I don't particularly them and one for us." want to drop dead on my 30th Wayne Pines associate FDA commissioner for public affairs, said the birthday." Frantel said the letter published in letter was genuine but since the FDA cancer within 10 could not get in touch with the author the name was changed. "We felt it was a legitimate editorial device to change the name of the writer since the point of the piece was not the incoming letter, but the response," Pines said. He said Goyan wanted to write a simple reply so the age of the cuisumer was changed to a Guy Smith, a Seven-Uspokesman, charged that a younger age adds emotion to the issue. p Super Study Guide For Lazy Student By PATRICIA McCORMACK UPI Education Editor A new super study guide for students contains no quick fix for lazy students. But the people who put the guide together do provide a way of preventing some pain when taking a test with multiple choice answers in other words, how to be smart when "guessing." The guide contains other tips n for plus lots of ad- study program, a dents. They in- from are beginning to have more homework assigned and developing study habits which will carry over into the rest of their lives." Units covered in the study workbook include: Ways to Listen; Tuning into Directions; Putting Ideas Together; Getting the Timing Down. A Matter of Time; Improving Your Vocabulary; Using a Dictionary; Building Sentences; Reading for Meaning; Taking test-take- heavyweight in the study arena. Here's bow to do some intelligent guessing in a multiple choice test situation, according "The Home Study Skill Program" for fifth through to seventh grade students: "If you don't know which answer is right, cross out all of the ones which you know are i d "Study skills must be learned." he said. "Such skills are especially critical for higher elementary grades and secondary school stu- vice on how to become a wrong. Then, pick the best arswer from the remaining choices. If you don't know which is best, make a good guess." -- On true-fals-e questions: "If the answer is partly false, mark it false. Watch out for key words like always, never, or only. These words can help you decide whether a statement is true or false." --On short answer questions: "Read the statement carefully. If you don't know the exact answer, write down the best answer you can think of." On matching questions :s On matching questions: "Match the items you know first. Then, cross them out. Make a good guess about the remaining item's." The study skills guide from educators at Harvard University and Milton Academy, a private prep school outside Boston, has just been published by the workbook-kin- of course that offers struction in 14 areas listening to test taking. Notes. "Contemporary society is callfor ing for more productivity people to get the most from the time they invest," Thomson said. "That is really the point to teaching study skills. "One example is listening. We are not born good listeners. Many people are poor listeners. They have never learned to listen. It is a skill and we can learn how to I improve that skill." The study skill advises students to try to connect what they are hearing to what they already know. Another hint is to "picture in your mind what is being said." "Some people find they can listen and remember better if they use their imaginations to make 'mental pictures'," Thomson said. To practice this skill during the study skills course, students are told to read a story once and then asked to recall what transpired. But they are not allowed to take notes while listening. Other advice to students aiming to develop super study skills: National Association of Secondary School Principals and the National Association of Elementary School Principals. "While educators and parents are calling for more attention on basic skills, perhaps the most fundamental skill of all is being overlooked," Dr.Scott Thomson, NASSP executive director said, talking about the guide. "That is how to study cor-- Know yourself. Each person seems to have good times of the day for learning. When do you learn best? In the morning, the afternoon or the evening? Try to figure out when is the best time for you to study. Experiment to discover your best attention span for studying. If you can concentrate for 15 or 20 minutes, plan to study for that long. Then, do something active and fun for a few minutes before you start again. (The student text, "Home Study Guide," is available for $3.95. Orders can be placed through the National Associa- rectly." "When many people are talking about teaching basic skills in schools, they are thinking about reading, composition and com- - Studying and work be even more basic than the three R's. "They are skills that will help students in their present class, in college if they opt for higher education, and in their professions as adults." Thomson has high hopes for the Eutation. 1i .Hi. Jm ,.:v A4'Vi tion of Secondary School Principals, 1904 Association Drive, Reston, Va. 22091.) Palestinians, Samalia Refugees a World Problem Like QORIOLEY, Somalia (UPI) undreds of tiny cooking fires -H- turn the sky gray and oily even before the rows of Qorioley's ramshackle huts come into view. Beside the huts, children romp in the mud, nursing runny noses and croupy coughs. A few old men gather around an improvised cafe. With only mud tracks for roads and no latrines, Qorioley looks much like the other 25 sprawling refugee facilities in Somalia, the Texas-size- d "horn" of East Africa. relativeQorioley is four years old ly ancient in the massive exodus of Somali tribal refugees from Ethiopia's Ogaden region who have fled eastward to Somalia. There, are 65,000 people here, cramped in shabby huts that look like igloos patched together from plastic, cardboard boxes and empty sacks. Stephen Green, the American field director for the British relief organization Oxfam, calls the Somali refugee situation a "permanent emergency." other By government estimate Aid officials are fond of drawing saying that is like 75 million refugees washing ashore in the United States. Said Gees, Somalia's deputy commissioner for refugees, said in a recent interview he hopes for "a special U.N. agency to take care of the refugees like they already do with the Palestinians." 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